We’ve been releasing a lot of new Aerial and Bird’s Eye imagery lately, so we thought it was time to do the same for our maps.
The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that we released maps of many new areas over the weekend on Multimap.com. We’ve combined our street level maps in Europe, with maps from Microsoft Virtual Earth that provide you with improved country and region level maps worldwide and new street level coverage of including…
Asia - Japan
Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, South Africa
Eastern Europe -Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia
Central and South America - Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
These new maps are available on Multimap.com today, and will be available via our Multimap API for business customers and Open API for developers over the next few weeks.
Our friends on the Microsoft Virtual Earth team have also just delivered another 20TB of Aerial and Bird’s Eye images, which also includes some new UK imagery. A big thank you to them all!!
Enjoy!!
Bird’s Eye!??
May 15th, 2008
When Matthew announced that we now have Bird’s Eye images in Australia, courtesy of Microsoft Virtual Earth, I messaged him afterwards and said “do you think most users actually know what Bird’s Eye is? They might get the wrong idea…” (we haven’t sent the Captain to sell Turkey Twizzlers in Oz for example). Little did I know he would challenge me to try to explain what it’s all about to you all, so here goes…
Helping drivers reduce their carbon footprints
February 26th, 2008
Some of you may have noticed that a few months ago we enhanced our travel directions service to offer users information about the carbon footprint of journeys, as well as the ability to offset those journeys.
The service is provided through a partnership with Carbon Clear, a leading carbon management company that helps businesses and consumers manage their greenhouse gas emissions.
To use the carbon calculator, Multimap users click the “get directions” link on www.multimap.com, enter their journeys’ start and end points, click “find”, and are presented with step-by-step directions and route maps. The directions results now include information on the carbon footprint of the journey. A pull-down menu allows users to choose the correct engine size of their cars, and to compare the carbon footprint of the journey if they were to go by bus or train instead of driving. Users clicking on the “more info” link will find details of how the carbon footprint is calculated, and can visit the Carbon Clear website to take action to offset their journeys.
The story of how the carbon calculator came to be on the Multimap site is an interesting one, which provides a bit of insight into how we innovate, and how new services don’t always turn out as you expect….